landemva

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by landemva 3y ago
> convincing suburban Americans to buy smaller houses In USA, a person's house value has become their retirement plan. A quick free-market solution is to eliminate the house mortgage interest deduction and make all of the sale price
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by landemva 3y ago
> Governments at any level can reduce how much they subsidize waste removal. Are you in USA? What specific city/county/State goverment practices are problematic? I am interested in seeing the actual codes/laws.
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> There is no way this world exists without an authoritarian global government. The world does not care about humans and will be okay without us trying to micromanage. The Romans had a long stretch of expansive rule, though it was not hi
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> The tax code and filing process should be optimized for efficient use of government resources and tax payer time. The optimal case for efficiency would be to set the personal income tax rate to zero, and remove all deductions. The feds
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by landemva 3y ago
Not for me, but how much of your personal money would you like to chip in to bail out the current owners of tax prep companies?
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by landemva 3y ago
Since you brought up refinery visits in the context of 80,000 hires I guess it is significant. Do you have an estimate of how many full time positions are for going to refineries to look at red diesel? Is this something a State could do?
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by landemva 3y ago
Being forced into paying the federal government a portion of wages because a person happened to be born within the federal government land mass is taking the fruits of a person's work. Slaves are born into the slave owner's planta
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by landemva 3y ago
Hyperbole is "speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc. than they are". https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hyperbol... IRS can lien assets, sie
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A simple tax code is to eliminate the federal personal income tax. No federal personal income tax would eliminate W-2 paycheck wiithholding, giving every W-2 employee an effective take home pay increase. People not filing personal federal i
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by landemva 3y ago
Yes, $9353 is beyond my hobby budget. https://www.ettus.com/all-products/X310-KIT
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by landemva 3y ago
Due to procedure changes, and very tough doors into flight deck which are generally locked, and voluntary handgun carry by pilots, US hijacking is not feasible. Yet we pay a ticket surcharge to get TSA groped and our privacy violated. Ameri
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by landemva 3y ago
> Even a test that is 99% accurate in a high-incidence population is going to be utterly ineffective when applied to the general population. I read that sentence a few times. 99% accurate seems quite high. WSJ recently opined about the 1
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by landemva 3y ago
Instead of default the bad debt and a recession, what alternative is there? Prop it up a little longer? Default on everything, go to CBDC, and issue everyone monthly CBDC tokens to buy food?
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by landemva 3y ago
A neat thing about private property is you can be your own plutocrat and run it precisely how you desire. You can make a big paved area and open it up to car drifters, homeless, and lemonade stands. You can get it done exactly right. In fac
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There are various ways government and private ownership can provide accountability. I lived in a town where the property lines met on all sides, including through what appeared to be the roads. Each lot was encumbered with an easement which
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by landemva 3y ago
> clearcutting their own land is hypocritical to the extreme. Hypocritical++ is cutting someone else's trees and shipping across an ocean to be burned for renewable subsidies. UK electricity plant converted from coal to burn wood fr
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by landemva 3y ago
USGS has a decent and short write-up of glaciers across Europe. It says 20,000+ years ago. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/glaciers-extended-over-muc...
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by landemva 3y ago
Ok, big name websites with same quotes of Merkel saying Minsk agreement was only to buy time. https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-opens-up-on-ukraine-puti... https://news.yahoo.com/putin-disappointed-me
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Can we agree Congress of USA should debate and pass a war resolution?
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Minsk is mainly Russian speakers. NY Times reported Zelensky tried to outlaw their religion. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/world/europe/zelensky-ukr... Merkel indicated the West 2016 Minsk agre
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by landemva 3y ago
> Russia invaded an ally whom we promised to protect Lindsey Graham and John McCain and Hunter Biden had interests there, but Ukraine is not in NATO and was set up in 1994 to not ally with either side. USA has no actual defense agreement
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What did it mean when Zelensky said in February 2022 that items such as disarmament in 1994 agreement are in doubt? The 1994 agreement was meant to remove Soviet nukes from Ukraine and to ensure buffer space. Since then NATO has pushed furt
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by landemva 3y ago
Despite neocon politicians visiting Ukraine over past decade (McCain Pence Nuland others), that country is not in NATO. In 1994 Ukraine was disarmed of Soviet nukes and was specifically set up as buffer between western Europe and Russia as
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by landemva 3y ago
His cloud VM was supposedly hacked. That was not hacking crypto, it was hacking a generic cloud account. And why presume what I may or may not be advocating?
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Those price increases were from covid. Fed raised rates just after eastern Europe hostilities which is being used to split world supply chains.
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by landemva 3y ago
Really like how the whataboutism adds useful thoughts. That guy claimed his cloud VM was compromised. Few would consider that to be a secure way to keep a secret, and it could be a boating accident story. Boating accidents do happen.
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The fastest way to slow inflation would be to end the war making. It was not a coincidence that federal reserve raised rates just after the start of eastern European hostilities.
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by landemva 3y ago
> federal reserve began raising rates in 2019 as it saw inflation incoming; a pandemic threw it for a loop, and when November 2021 came it decided to get back on track ... Which federal reserve was that? IIRC, federal reserve started rai
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by landemva 3y ago
> the current chair was nominated by [Trump] The private federal reserve grooms and vets a choice which the Pres. can rubber-stamp. It gives the interest-rate-setting cartel more legitimacy in mind of typical voter/taxpayer.
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by landemva 3y ago
I continue to be surprised by the limited listings. But people don't want to sell, and why would they sell out of their 3% mortgage now?

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